Robyn Rodriguez' 2010 bookMigrants for Export: How the Philippines Brokers Labor to the World (University of Minnesota Press) has recently won awards from the Association of American Geographers and the Association for Asian American Studies. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. Prior to UC Davis she taught in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. Dr. Rodriguez received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Rodriguez’s scholarship is broadly concerned with understanding how processes of globalization, particularly international migration, impact the societies that migrants leave and the societies to which they move. She is interested both in globalization “from above” and globalization “from below.” Rodriguez’s recent book MIgrants for Export (University of Minnestora Press 2010) focused on the role of the Philippine state as a “broker” of gendered and racialized global workers.

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